“What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.”

—  Susanna Clarke, book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

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